The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-01-20
WOMAN AS A MORAL AGENT.
Rev. DR.. Heber Newton Tells What
Good the Gentler Sex May Do.

Good the Gentler Sex May Do.
The Rev. DR.. R. Heber Newton discuss.
ed "Woman in Her Relations to the
State" in continuation of his sermon of
the previous Sunday, at All Souls Church
yesterday. His text was from Proverbs:
''She sitteth in high places, she speaketh
to men,"
The personiication of the divine idea
among the ancient Egyptians, he said,
wasa goddess, not god. The glorious
granite form carved and set up by them
to endure to all ages as the emblem of
divine wisdom incarnate was that of a
woman. "If we follow them we shall
learn WISDOM" he said. "Woman is
coming forward into every field of activ-
ity in modern life. and we should be glad
that it is so. Her inspiration and guild
ance are needed by men in public affairs
mere even than in any other sphere.
The influence of this advancement of
woman involves some little danger, per-
haps, but there can be no doubt that it
will cause many benefits.
"The great fault OF to-day in public ed.
ucation is the Observation-Disclosures
intellectually itself, but the sacrifice of
all else to a false and strained cultivation
of the intellect. Boys and girls are train
ed as if they were minds alone, aud not
the possessors of hands, and eyes and
stomachs, of brains and not conscience.
The abnormal development Of the emo
tional nature has left woman behind in
this reckless race of intellectually, and
and the fact is not discreditable but a
fortunate one. The day is not far off
VIII en- the two women now in the
School Board will prove the beginning of
an influence that will demand and &C.
cure new urriculum in the public
schools, introducing manual training as
the most important feature and fitting
boys and girls to be useful and independ-
! ent:
In the sphere of charity, he ontinued,
woman will exercise beneficial and pro-
gressive influence. Women will not turn
her face from an unfortunate, even though
t be the rum-seasonsd face of the per-
petual tramp. Pity, however, is not
sufficient. Discipline is the only means
by which any lasting good in this direc-
ion can be accomplished. We want not
he unmeaning pity that foods a mur.
derer's cell with flowers and sentiment,
but pity recognizing the responsibility
of those aided to see their need of moral,
mental and physical elevation. Already
one brave woman has made her name a
household word by her great and intelli-
,ent efforts in philanthropio fields Flor
nee Nightingale is noble example OF
what a woman can do.
"The problem of intemperance," Mr..
Newton continued, sis one the state must
.rapple with, Ientirely sympathize with
he idea that impels women to attack
his nionstrous evil. But when observe
he way%they 60 about it, I must exclaim
with the old French soldier witnessing
he charge at Balaklava: 1T is magnif-
ent, but it is not war; No real reform
an be: obtained save by the slow and
ure methods of education and agitation.
The wisdom of the new womanhood will
recognize this. Woman's idea of moral
ty will be broad ened in the new era. At
present she raises the standard of chas-
ity and fails to see that it is not the on
y virtue, nor the sole standard Of NOR
lity. Her ideal Of morality is private
nd domestic purity. Chastity is al, es-
ential factor, but not the sum total of
morality" =. - / :. +
The preacher closed With an apprecla-
i've tribute to the work done. by womeu
the White Cross movement in this
ountry and in Europe, and prophesied
+ hat Woman's entrance into public affairs
would lead mems minds to the might
est reforms the world ever knew. Next
unday this series Of sermons, begun in
Advent, will be concluded with con.
Iteration Of woman in the Social
phere."-New York World. ,#@.r
Gladstone is indeed d grand old man.